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Alise Oken and Teirra Top $25,000 Suncast® 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic

by Lauren Fisher and Laura Cardon for Jennifer Wood Media, Inc. | 2/4/2013 8:43:21 AM

Alise Oken and Teirra. (Sportfot) Wellington, FL - Week four of the2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF), sponsored by Fidelity Investments®, concluded on Sunday afternoon with a win for 21-year-old Alise Oken and Hi Hopes Farm, LLC's Teirra in the $25,000 Suncast® 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic. Leopoldo Palacios of Venezuela set the courses for week four jumper competition in the International Arena at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC)....

Wilcox and Pikko Del Cerro HU Pick Up Another Win at the WCD Sunshine Challenge CDI3*

by Sue Weakley and Mary Adelaide Brakenridge for Phelps Media Group, Inc. Inte | 1/25/2013 2:53:11 PM

Lisa Wilcox and Pikko Del Cerro HU (Susan J. Stickle) Wellington, FL - Lisa Wilcox and Pikko Del Cerro HU scored double wins at the Wellington Classic Dressage Sunshine Challenge CDI3* with victories Friday in the Grand Prix Special and Thursday in the Grand Prix. Pikko Del Cerro HU, a 16.2 dark bay Hanoverian stallion owned by Horses Unlimited and Anne Sparks, scored 68.854% in Friday's FEI Grand Prix Special CDI3* USEF HP $1,000 sponsored by Palm Beach Equine and Sports Complex. The pair...

Conor Swail and Carlotta Singular Win $8,000 G&C Farm 1.45m Jumpers

by Lauren Fisher for Jennifer Wood Media, Inc. | 1/17/2013 9:51:07 AM

Conor Swail and Carlotta Singular (Sportfot) Wellington, FL - The second week of competition at the 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) kicked off on Wednesday, January 16, with a win for Conor Swail (IRL) and Carlotta Singular in the $8,000 G&C Farm 1.45m Jumpers at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. The second week of FTI WEF competition, sponsored by Wellington Equestrian Realty , will run January 16-20. Highlight events include the $33,000 Ruby et...

Rodrigo Pessoa and HH Let's Fly Soar to Victory in $30,000 Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Round 1

by Lauren Fisher and Laura Cardon for Jennifer Wood Media, Inc. | 1/11/2013 9:35:13 AM

Rodrigo Pessoa and HH Let's Fly. (Sportfot) Wellington, FL - Brazil's Rodrigo Pessoa and HH Let's Fly galloped to victory in the $30,000 Ruby et Violette WEF Challenge Cup Round 1 on the second day of competition at the 2013 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival (FTI WEF) on Thursday. After kicking the year off with a second place finish in last weekend's inaugural $100,000 Trump Invitational Grand Prix, the duo is off to the races with a win to start their winter circuit. Week...

Unique eBay Auction to Benefit Equine Education

by Sarah Coleman | 12/11/2012 1:56:52 PM

Lexington, KY - The Equine Academy at Lexington Catholic High School is hosting a truly unique eBay auction. If you still have holiday shopping to do, but don’t want to brave the crowds at the mall, try a little shopping from your sofa. Filled to the brim with items perfect for the hard-to-shop for, their auction, which runs through Sunday, Dec. 16 at 8 p.m., includes some very hard-to-come-by items. You can find all of these items and their details at: myworld.ebay.com/lchsequine or by...

Katie Dinan and Nougat Du Vallet Victorious in $50,000 Holiday & Horses FEI World Cup Qualifier

by Lauren Fisher for Jennifer Wood Media, Inc. | 12/2/2012 8:28:25 AM

Katie Dinan and Nougat du Vallet (© ManciniPhotos) Wellington, FL - Nineteen-year-old Katie Dinan (USA) and Grant Road Partners' Nougat Du Vallet earned an exciting victory in Saturday night's $50,000 Holiday and Horses FEI World Cup Grand Prix at the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center (PBIEC) in Wellington, FL. American riders took top four honors in the eleven horse jump-off. Dinan beat Todd Minikus and Macoemba and Margie Engle and Royce, who finished second and third...

Pop Art Goes Out on a High Note, Americans Sweep $32,000 “Brickenden Trophy” International Class at the Royal Horse Show

by Michelle Dunn for the 90th Royal Agricultural Winter Fair | 11/9/2012 9:33:55 AM

Ashley Holzer and Pop Art danced their way out of competition tonight by once again winning at the Royal. The $20,000 Dominion Regalia Royal Invitational Dressage Cup Freestyle to Music was their last competition together. (BenRadvanyi.com) Toronto, ON – It was Ashley Holzer’s night to shine, and shine she did, with her long-time partner Pop Art piaffing and passaging to one last victory together at the 90th Royal Horse Show. While the scores for tonight’s $20,000 Dominion...

Defending Champions Dominate at the Royal Horse Show

by Michelle Dunn | 11/3/2012 10:18:03 AM

Toronto, ON – They don’t call him “The Flying Frenchman” for nothing. Two-time defending Canadian Show Jumping Champion Yann Candele (Caledon, ON), took the initial round of the Greenhawk Canadian Show Jumping Championships tonight in the Royal Horse Show, positioning himself well heading into tomorrow evening's final. Although Candele incurred four time-penalties when Game Ready lowered the height of the sixth fence, he was still able to post an impressively quick...

Reed Kessler and Cylana Capture Victory in $100,000 President's Cup Grand Prix, CSI 3*-W

by Jennifer Wood Media, Inc. | 10/28/2012 10:37:38 AM

Cylana and Reed Kessler. (Shawn McMillen Photography) Washington, D.C. - Eighteen-year-old U.S. Olympian Reed Kessler added yet another accolade to her impressive year with a win in the $100,000 President's Cup Grand Prix, presented by Events DC, at the 54th annual Washington International Horse Show (WIHS). A FEI World Cup Qualifier, Kessler topped an impressive list of international competitors aboard her phenomenal mare Cylana to win in her first time competing in the class....

Open Jumpers Go For Speed

by Jennifer Wood Media, Inc. | 10/27/2012 8:39:24 AM

Ohlala and Lauren Hough. (Shawn McMillen Photography) Washington D.C. - Lauren Hough (USA) and Ohlala were the winners in the $32,000 International Open Jumper 1.50m faults converted class, sponsored by Sleepy P Ranch, as part of the evening competition on Friday.Nineteen entries jumped the course, and Hough and Ohlala cleared the obstacles in a blazing fast time of 46.82 seconds for the win. ? Nicola Philippaerts (BEL) and Stal de Kalvarie’s Diebrich de Kalvarie cleared the course just a...